van der Waals epitaxy of CdTe thin film on graphene
van der Waals epitaxy of CdTe thin film on graphene
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4964127
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发表时间:
2016-10
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4
通讯作者:
D. Mohanty;W. Xie;Yiping Wang;Zonghuan Lu;Jian Shi;Shengbai Zhang;Gwo-Ching Wang;T. Lu;I. Bhat
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作者:
D. Mohanty;W. Xie;Yiping Wang;Zonghuan Lu;Jian Shi;Shengbai Zhang;Gwo-Ching Wang;T. Lu;I. Bhat
van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) facilitates the epitaxial growth of materials having a large lattice mismatch with the substrate. Although vdWE of two-dimensional (2D) materials on 2D materials have been extensively studied, the vdWE for three-dimensional (3D) materials on 2D substrates remains a challenge. It is perceived that a 2D substrate passes little information to dictate the 3D growth. In this article, we demonstrated the vdWE growth of the CdTe(111) thin film on a graphene buffered SiO2/Si substrate using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technique, despite a 46% large lattice mismatch between CdTe and graphene and a symmetry change from cubic to hexagonal. Our CdTe films produce a very narrow X-ray rocking curve, and the X-ray pole figure analysis showed 12 CdTe (111) peaks at a chi angle of 70°. This was attributed to two sets of parallel epitaxy of CdTe on graphene with a 30° relative orientation giving rise to a 12-fold symmetry in the pole figure. First-principles calculations reveal that,...